Garment.



L. GRIMM & H. H. KANT.

GARMENT.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 1, 1915.

1,169,256. Patented Jan. 25, 191

LOUIS GBIMM AND HERBERT KANT, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

GARMENT.

Application filed July 1, 1915. Serial No. 87,481.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, LOUIS GRIMM and HERBERT H. KANT, citizens of the United States, residing at Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garments; and we do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This inventionrelates to improvements in garments and more particularly to means for connecting the sleeve of a garment thereto.

The object of the invention is to provide a garment of this character in which the sleeve is so constructed and connected as to aflor'd ease of movement to the arm of the wearer and relieve all strain on the back, across the chest, and under the arm and adapt a single garmentto fit and be comfortably worn by persons of varying chest and shoulder measurements.

With this and other objects in view, the invention consists of certain novel features of construction, and the combination and ar 'rangement of parts as will be more fully described andclaimed.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 represents a front elevation of a coat constructed in accordance with this invention; Fig. 2 is a rear elevation thereof; Fig. 3 1s a plan view of the sleeve detached and in open position showing this improvement applied. 35 In the embodiment illustrated a garment is shown comprising the front quarters 1 and back 2 which are composed of any desired material, the front quarters being adapted to button at their front edges. Sleeves 3 are 40 applied to this garment and are connected at their top :-t the top of the arm scye at the shoulder 4 by an; inelastic strip 5 about two inches wide more or less and which is here shown as an integral part of the sleeve form- 45 ing an unyielding connecting tongue. This strip 5 is curved inwardly on opposite sides as shown at 6 and 7 and merges into the curved lower or under arm portion 8 of the sleeve. 7

An arcuate elastic strip 10 preferably composed of knit fabric of single thread five needle weave having its tapered ends marked 11 and 12 connects the remainder of the sleeve to the scye with the tapered ends 11 55 and 12 thereof engaged therewith adjacent the strip 5, the widest portion of said strip Speeification of Letters Patent.

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' being disposed at the under arin portion of the garment and with the convex edge of the strip secured to the concave sleeve end. By so connecting the sleeve with the garment the arm of the wearer is permitted to move freely and all strain on the back, across the chest, and under the arm is prevented owing to the elasticityof the strip 10 and whereby a single garment equipped with this sleeve connection will fit and may be comfortably worn by persons of different chest and shoul der measurements, the elastic strip contracting when worn by narrow chested persons and expanding, to fit those having wider chests or shoulders, or both.

As shown, the tapered end 11 of the strip 10 extends beyond an outer longitudinal seam 3 which extends through the outside portion of the elbow of the sleeve.

An elastic gore 9 is also shown inset in the garment in the under-arm seamvand which is designed to adapt the garment to fit wearers of different waist measures.

By connecting the sleeve 3 at the top thereof with the shoulder of the garment by an inelastic strip, the sleeve is held in proper posi tion to adapt it to comfortably fit the wearer, and the elastic connection of the remainder thereof with the garment provides for the freedom of movement of the wearer without binding at any point.

We claim as our invention:

The combination with a body garment having an ordinary armhole or scye; of a sleeve having a portion of its inner end cut away to form a concave edge terminating at its opposite ends adjacent the top of the sleeve on opposite sides thereof, the ends of said concave portion being spaced from each other .a sufficient distance to form a longitudinallyexte'nding narrow inelastic tongue, an arcuate elastic strip having its convex edge secured to the concave edge of the sleeve and its concave edge securedto the eis Q I V I 1,169,256

shoulder only and is held against longitudiset our hands in presence of two subscribing nal displacement while permitted to yield witnesses. throughout the remainder of its connection LOUIS GRIMM with the garment, thereby adapting a sin 1e HERBERT H ANT 5 garment to fit and be comfortably worn y persons of varying chest and shoulder meas- Witnesses: urem'ents. I MICHAEL GAES, In testimony whereof we have hereunto FRED DOERING; 

